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During 3 years I worked about the plight of ostracised Indian widows. This is the incredible story of social reformer Bindeshwar Pathak bringing happiness into the lives of Indian widows, a story from despair to hope. A book, Angels of Ghost Street, has been published by Edition Lammerhuber.

I am happy and I am proud.Why should I be ashamed?My smile is full of wisdom and serenity.I am a woman. I am your mother, sister, and daughter…I gave birth, and love, and life.I gave blood, and sweat, and tears,With such a long patience…But you gave me back contempt, and exclusion.Do not worry.You are not true, you are not sincere, you are wrong.But I do not care and I love you.

I am a woman and I am a widow.I loved my husband so much.He passed away and I … I became what?Untouchable? Scavenger? A shame for society?Tell me… Sincerely… Who should be ashamed?Did I steal? Did I kill? Did I rape?It is so easy to put me down.This is what YOU think,Because I look so fragile.You think that you can easily ignore me,Crush me between your fingers.

But God is Love and I am a servant of Love,A Lover of Goodness, Beauty, Justice and Truth.I believe in Sulabh, and I trust Dr. Pathak:I believe in peaceful and deep social revolutionGiving birth to a fair societyWhere I shall be a princess in your dreams…And no more a nightmare and a ghost in your unfair reality!

Please, please, can you only… RESPECT ME?I am just like you: I am free!And my name is Beauty, Shanti, Felicity.This is Holi and…I am Victory of Simplicity.